Argus title : A place for hope and achievement
The Phoenix was a mythical bird, believed to live in the deserts of Arabia. When the time came for it to die it would build its own funeral pyre. Out of the ashes a new Phoenix would rise.
It is a powerful image of the triumph of life and hope over suffering and death. It suggests the possibility of transformation.
Brighton Housing Trust’s First Base Day Centre is a place of transformation. The use of the building itself is radically different from what it once was, for in Regency times it was a ballroom. Continue reading